Specifies a custom heartbeat to use in the partnership to monitor the availability of the partner cluster.

If you omit this option, the default Sun Cluster Geographic Edition heartbeat is used.

Custom heartbeats are provided for special circumstances and require careful configuration. Consult your Sun specialist for assistance if your system requires the use of custom heartbeats. For more information about configuring custom heartbeats, see Chapter 6, Administering Heartbeats.

If you create a custom heartbeat, you must add at least one plug-in to prevent the partnership from remaining in degraded mode.

You must configure the custom heartbeat that you provide in this option before you run the geops command.

remoteclustername

Specifies the name of a cluster that is currently a member of the partnership that is being joined. This cluster is used to retrieve the partnership configuration information.